Freedom House criticized the new amendments to the law on e-Declaration, which approved Poroshenko
International human rights organization Freedom House has condemned the amendments to the law on e-Declaration, which oblige representatives of public organizations to submit statements of income. About it reports “Radio Freedom”.
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According to the statement, the amendments to the law allow to increase government control over civil society organizations, which could undermine their work, “which is necessary to restore public confidence in government.”
“The new requirements are aimed at protecting politicians, dissatisfied with public control, and give them the opportunity to take revenge on those who participate in anti-corruption investigations. Moreover, the law clearly violates the Council of Europe standards prohibiting arbitrary and discriminatory interference in the independent functioning of civil society”, – said the Director of Eurasia programs at Freedom House mark Behrendt.
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We will remind, on March 27, the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed amendments to the law on electronic Declaration.
In connection with the new edits, representatives of public associations are obliged to submit reports on their incomes, but soldiers from this need should be free.
We will note, earlier people’s Deputy from the faction “people’s front” Tatiana Chornovol his amendment proposed to introduce e-Declaration and for individuals who are founders (participants), editors (the editors) media. But during the discussion the proposal was withdrawn because the journalists do not receive salaries from the budget and not live on taxpayers ‘ money, unlike civil servants.
Add that the new changes to the law “On corruption prevention” has received great resonance among the world community. The US government, the UK and the EU urged the Ukrainian Parliament to reconsider the new changes and refuse from their implementation, which in their opinion, is “a step backward” that could interfere with the reform process of our country.